[rabbitmq-discuss] Miscellaneous Question

Thu Jan 15 00:44:38 GMT 2009

Hi Tony,

I guess it makes sense. Doing a reverse lookup on the new IP assigned
by the DHCP server.

-J

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net> wrote:
> Matthias Radestock wrote:
>>
>> The mnesia dir you sent Ben contains evidence of two nodenames:
>> phantome-rabbit1 at thunderstallion and phantome-rabbit1 at Phantome.
>
> Interesting - it looks like OS X changes the *hostname* depending on the
> assignments it gets back from *DHCP*!
>
> I frequently open my laptop at home, open an xterm, and see "tonyg at truth"
> instead of "tonyg at walk"; walk is the name of my OS X laptop, truth of my
> linux desktop. When this happens, truth hasn't been running, and instead I
> get the IP address that is *usually* assigned to truth.
>
> Tony
>